You find what space you can in Burundi, where 14m people squeeze into an area not much bigger than Wales or Massachusetts.

Esco Bell walked the length of Mount Vernon’s 1.7-mile floodwall just after midnight on Friday, watching the water creep up to the brim of the only barrier separating the surging Skagit River from the ...

President Trump said that he delayed U.S. military strikes in Nigeria until Christmas Day to deliver a message to groups he ...

Introduction Along the eastern stretches of the Greater Accra Region, where the sea whispers ancient songs and the wind carries the scent of salt and tradition, lies Ningo mdash; one of the oldest ...

A pair of deadly attacks in Syria and Australia has shone a fresh spotlight on the Islamic State, the militant group.

The United States of America has been the world’s only superpower since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet empire by the dawn of the 1990s. Also, the US ...

The attackers also abducted an unspecified number of people, including students from a Catholic school where over 300 people ...

At least 30 villagers have been killed while several others were abducted by gunmen who raided a village in northern Nigeria’s Niger state, police said Sunday, the latest in a cycle of deadly violence ...

The head of an alliance of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger says the launch of a joint battalion “must be followed by large-scale operations in the coming days." ...

BURLINGTON, Washington, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Residents and emergency crews in towns along the rain-engorged Skagit River in western Washington state braced on Friday for potential levee failures while ...

Rain-swollen Skagit River crests at all-time high Entire town of Burlington under evacuation order 100,000 people statewide urged to seek higher ground National Guard assists in evacuations, food ...

Towns chipped in two points (1-5 FG, 0-2 FT), six rebounds, two assists and two steals over 29 minutes during Sunday's 132-125 win over Miami. Towns struggled to get much going, turning in season lows ...